Cutter for wood-screw-cutting machines.



WEBER. CUTTER FOR WOOD SCREW CUTTING MAGHINES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1904.

Patented May 3, 1910, I

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GUSTAV WEBER, OF HAGEN, WESTPHALIA, GERMANY.

CUTTER FOR WOOD-SCREW-CUTTING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1910.

Application filed September 24, 1904. Serial No. 255,728.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV WEBER, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Hagen, in the Province of Westphalia and Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutters for Wood-Screw-Cutting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that sort of cutters for wood screw cutting machines where the cutter proper resembles a little toothed wheel or a part of a sharp threaded screw spindle instead of the comb cutters formerly used. The working of these new cutters, as is known is thus, that the cutterwheel rolls along the quickly rotating bolt or blank, which is to be provided with screw thread and its advance is so,-

that at each revolution of the bolt, it moves forward by the pitch of the screw thread or by the distance from thread to thread. Now these cutterdisks have the disadvantage that they are only fit for making large or com paratively long screws, for making thin and short screws, say of 3/32 or 1/8 inch diameter and 1 4 of an inch length only, they are unfit, because on account of the size of their diameter they can not be brought soclose to the bolt, but would come in contact with the device (clamping tongs) holding the bolt or blank. That sort of cutters of this class, which consist of a sufliciently long piece of mutiple sharp threaded screw with a' sharp edge and concave cutter end can not be made so thin, say 1/8 of an inch only, because they would either bend or break. This is proved by experience; they break when they are sufficiently hard, because in this case they can notresist the bending strain, to which they are exposed and when they are not hard they bend and then the screws out by them are not uniform. Now my present invention avoids all these drawbacks and I attain the object in view by constructing the cutting tool and the holder for the same as described hereafter and shown on the accompanying drawing, in which--- Figure 1 shows the construction of the new cutter and the manner and means of fixing the same in a tool holder ready for cutting a screw, Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1.

By 1 is indicated the cutter head which is provided on its circumference" with the threads of the form of a multiple screw; its upper end is turned out concave, so as to form on its edge cutter teeth, which correspond in shape and pitch with the screw thread to be out. From the lower side of the head 1 extends a slightly conical shaft 4, a by which the cutter is connected to and held in the hollow spindle 5 of the tool holder 8, which itself is fixed to, or forms part of the machine frame indicated by the shaded lines 8*. The machine itself having nothing to do with the present invention, other parts than those absolutely necessary are not shown on the drawing. The spindle 5 is held rotatively and movably in axial direction in the holder 8, it is set inrotation by a spur wheel 9, which meshes with a pinion, not shown in Fig. 1, but indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The wheel 9 is so held in the holder 8 that it cannot be shifted in an axial direction on the spindle but that the latter can be moved up and down and adjusted therein by the combined action of the screw 6 and the set screw 10 the latter being indicated in dotted lines and resting on a bracket 10 fixed to or forming part of the main frame of the machine, the heads of both screws 6 and 10 bear against each other and by their set'nuts 6 and 10', respectively, they can be finely adjusted.

By 11 is indicated the clamp which holds the blank to be provided with screw thread, this clamp is held rotatively in the machine. It also does not form part of the present invention and therefore only so much of it is shown as is necessary forthe understand ing of the invention. From the description given so far, it will now be easily understood that by means of the new cutter in combination with the tool holder very small screws can be cut and the thread can be out quite close to the head of the blank. The slightly conical lower part of the cutter shaft allows fixin and adjusting of the latter in the spind e 5 without any special means; it requires only a slight blow or a .little tipping to fasten it in the spindle 5 and the pressure exerted upon it while at i work secures it in its lace, while on the other handthis mode of fixing it, allows its ready and nice adjustment with regard to the screw 'to be cut.

What I claim as my invention and desire I to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a wood screw cutting machine for mak ing very small screws the cornbinatlon with a frame, of a holder fixed to said frame, a

with cutting threads on its circumference and having at its front end a cavity, the said head being formed on a double conical shaft, firmly held in said hollow spindle and adapted to rotate therewith.

In testimony whereof I' have hereunto 15 aflixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GUSTAV WEBER.

' Witnesses:

J. A. RIT'mRsHAUs, HEINR. AHLEFELDER. 

